Fuses

[mercalia]

well looking on ebay to buy some fuses now that Maplins on the way out. a fuse is a fuse isa fuse aint it?
is there any reason to use ceramic v glass fuses?

for those who spend serious money on things I came across these fancy ones at £39 -each one!
Synergistic Research 5 x 20mm SR-20 Quantum Fuse T 3.15A

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-5...0001&campid=5338728743&icep_item=231272318782

 

[Pete MB&D]

Don’t buy fancy fuses!

Mains fuses should be ceramic because a short can vaporise the wire blowing the glass to pieces, so mains ceramic low voltage glass mostly.

Pete

 

[daytona600]

Don’t buy fancy fuses!+1
littelfuse make billions of them & even fancy ones with gold plating

http://www.littelfuse.com/products/fuses/cartridge-fuses/5x20mm-fuses/285.aspx

 

[Cyclopse]

This is one of their entry level internal fuses. Check out the Black and recently released Blue.

 

[Guest432]

 

[davidsrsb]

Follow the links and you see the standard range of values. There is no way a boutique supplier is going to be making so many wire sizes in a "custom alloy"

Also note the lack of any regulatory approvals on the fancy sleeve

 

[sq225917]

Danger will Robinson, potentially.

 

[ssimon]

I use fancy fuses, Hi-Fi Tuning to be precise, although I've tried Synergistic Research to adverse effect. A good Dealer will let you try before you buy, so I don't understand the naysayers. If they don't work for you, don,t buy.

 

[mercalia]

I use fancy fuses, Hi-Fi Tuning to be precise, although I've tried Synergistic Research to adverse effect. A good Dealer will let you try before you buy, so I don't understand the naysayers. If they don't work for you, don,t buy.

well at £40 a pop even if they made a difference I would never use them since they are consumables

 

[timola]

Their name contains the word 'Quantum' wow! I'm now 'uncertain' if they'd be any good.

 

[Yomanze]

I'm sure home insurance companies would love to see such fuses being used...

 

[Folkman]

well at £40 a pop even if they made a difference I would never use them since they are consumables

On that note , I can recall over the past 40 years of only having one fuse blow in all my hifi gear , and that was under warranty due to a manufacturing error.
So not much to worry about there then.

 

[Mike42]

Couldn't care less that someone tries a fancy fuse, but they do a 16A 'slow blow' version. That's clearly dangerous as all uk plugs are 13A max.

 

[Arkless Electronics]

That is a real nice comment Jezz! You have a lot of good information to pass on, and I think most of it is appreciated, so why say things like that regardless?

I don't think you'd want me to really take the gloves off and say what I think of people who whilst usually starting with "I know nothing about electronics BUT.." then basically go on to state that due to what they imagine they hear then NASA, MIT, Faraday, Maxwell, Ohm, Tesla, Philips, Sony, etc etc are all wrong and the laws of physics don't apply to them...

 

[Barrymagrec]

I think the question we need to ask is are fuse believers even more gullible than cable believers?

 

[daytona600]

Fuses are not designed to sound good , but to stop your equipment failing or killing you or your family in a fire caused by a electrical fault
60% of all deaths are caused by fires & fuse suppliers test to very strict global standards
$500+ for a copy of test standards from Lloyds for north american certification only
& testing & approval costs a hell of a lot more & can take years
UL Standard for Safety Low-Voltage Fuses – Part 1: General Requirements

 

[Cav]

A fuse is a fuse.

 

[Joe Hutch]

A fuse by any other name would smell as sweet.

 

[Dowser]

Fuses are evil, replace with offcuts of 6” nails

Do I need to add not to actually try this?

 

[Yomanze]

In the Darwin Awards book, a guy realised that a .22 round was the same size as a fuse that blew in his car, so duly fitted one in. The rest is history.